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Our Clinical Product History

In 50 years, technology and innovation has pushed forward the field of in vitro diagnostics. Just look at the images and see how far we have come in just a short time! bioMérieux is proud to have played a part in helping you provide ever more relevant and faster results to improve patient management and healthcare. Our partnership approach with customers enables us to see where you need help most and that’s where we work hard to find new products, services or solutions.

1967

The Fibrometer is added to the BD Mérieux catalog, and is quickly adopted by a quarter (approx. 1,000) of Frace’s laboratories

1969

The first toxoplasmosis detection kit (diagnosis of toxoplasmosis by immunofluorescence)
Launch of miniaturized API® strip by API®System*

1972

Production and sale of the first ready-to-use culture media in Petri plates

1974

Launch of the SLIDEX® Meningitis kit (first test enabling the diagnosis of an infectious disease without prior culture, with results in 5 minutes compared to several days previously)

Launch of PREVI® Isola for the automated inoculation of culture media, and PREVI® Color Gram for automated Gram staining

2010

BACT/ALERT® 3D Dual-T, a microbial detection system used for sterility testing in the biopharmaceutical industry
Launch of Myla® middleware

2011

Inauguration of the laboratory of the future, at Marcy l’Étoile, France (over 1,000 visits from biologists and scientists in a year). Development of a similar unit in Saint Louis, Missouri (USA).
The laboratories enable discussions to align bioMérieux’s future products and services with customer needs

Launch of CE-marked VITEK® MS, used in association with the VITEK®2 system for antibiotic susceptibility testing

First bioNexia® rapid tests commercialized by bioMérieux

2012

Launch of VITEK®MS, a bacterial identification system using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, for industrial applications

Presentation of VIDAS® 3, the new generation of the VIDAS® immunoassay platform